grey

[Grey]

Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537 1554)

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See Gray (the correct orthography).

Noun
gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"

Noun
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

Noun
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"

Noun
Englishman who as Prime minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)

Noun
Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)

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Noun
United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)

Verb
turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"

Verb
make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky"

Adjective S.
an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"

Adjective S.
darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"

Adjective S.
intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

Adjective S.
used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"

Adjective S.
showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"


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See Gray (the correct orthography).


Grey

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See Gray (the correct orthography).

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Usage Examples

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

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